I have one daughter and two grandchildren whom I am absolutely certain the UK would have murdered, just like Charlie Gard, as they attempted to do with Ashya King, as they are doing with Alfie. One was sent home on oxygen and a feeding tube and a diagnosis giving him an 85% chance of living to 3 years old. They were wrong. It was a misdiagnosis. Once they realized that (at his first birthday) he was able to eat, breathe,swallow, and thrive so long as he receives proper medication. He’s now 7 and a happy, normal, delightful, rambunctious boy.
One was in the NICU and his parents were told to expect a lifetime of round the clock care, that he’d be in the NICU for months and would have severe brain damage. He was in the NICU for two weeks and is also a perfectly normal, happy, active little boy of 3ish. The treatment he received in the NICU was somewhat experimental, still newish, not yet standard in every NICU. It saved his life and allowed him to thrive.
And my daughter is 31, still in diapers, and doesn’t speak, but she’s also quite happy and satisfied with her ‘quality of life,’ even though she spent a considerable amount of time in the incubator in the NICu herself and we adopted her at 6.

It’s evil for the government to decide to hold this baby hostage over the parents’ wishes when there are other doctors who have looked at his records and suggested they may be able to help, who are not ready to give up on him. It is Evil. Wicked. This is what Eugenics looks like. Hitler accusations are far too much thrown about, but it is a fact that Hitler also started by killing off the disabled in hospitals. Every single staff member who is participating in this murder, every single one of the police officers guarding the doors so his parents cannot leave the hospital with him- they scare me to death. Do not look for these people to step up and do the right thing, to stand against evil at any time. They will smile and smile and smile and give you the shot that kills you and defend their actions as in your own best interest.

Alfie is not even receiving palliative care- they are denying him nourishment. They with-held water for hours. This is cruel and inhumane. 30 cops guarding the doors so that a baby doesn’t receive nutrition, hydration, oxygen, or medical care from people willing and able to provide it ought to horrify any human being whose conscience has not been seared over with a hot iron.

UK police respond to the state’s ongoing slow and tortuous murder of baby Alfie by threatening free speech:
“We’ve issued a statement this evening to make people aware that social media posts which are being posted in relation to Alder Hey and the Alfie Evans situation are being monitored and may be acted upon. Read the full statement here: https://goo.gl/hUZ5zB”

As for the hogwash (I badly want to use a much stronger word), horse crap, scraped off from the bottom of the barn floor argument that is just kindness and all about what is in Alfie’s best interests because the hospital staff and judge have determined (mistaking themselves for gods) further care would ‘prolong’ Alfie’s suffering- they say he’s brain dead. If they are right, he’s not suffering. He wouldn’t be suffering if his parents took him to Italy for better treatment, either. In February, these same experts stated that Alfie’s breathing was not really breathing, it was just seizures! They also said seizures were the only activity his brain is capable of. So by their own diagnosis, they don’t really believe he’s suffering at all. This is not about the best interests and care of Alfie, at least not on the part of the judge or the medical staff. This is about defending the indefensible, protecting their power, their turf, their dubious moral authority.

Of course, their own diagnosis was horribly awry- he’s been breathing on his own for over a day.

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Chilling. What is it about UK medical professionals and judges that they LIKE killing children? I have not been able to figure out why they fight to prevent their patients from seeking treatment elsewhere. If you are gravely ill in a UK hospital, that hospital and the UK itself becomes your prison because they certainly aren’t going to let you leave. Death lovers.

I don’t even know how to process this. I keep reading about it and the other cases and I end up nonplussed and speechless. Mainly due to the people that think this is the merciful and ethical thing to do. I can’t fathom thinking such a hideous thing.